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NOUMEA, Monday.--A terrific cyclone has swept the New Caledonian coast, with disastrous results to shipping. The French ship Joilette, while loading nickel…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AUCKLAND, Tuesday Morning.—So far 51 bodies of the victims of the Penguin disaster have been recovered, and all hay been identified. It is supposed that there are 23 bodies…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Lord Mayor of Sydney (Alderman Taylor) has dispatched a cablegram to Sir Joseph Ward, Prime Minister of the Dominion of New Zealand, expressing the deep sympathy of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Friday night the Union s.s. Company's steamer Penguin went ashore on the Sew Zealand coast, and some sixty odd lives were lost. Only 27 of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The French barque Joliette sank at 6.30 on Friday evening, whilst loading nickel at Thio. on the east coast of New Caledonia. The disaster was the result of a hurricane. The crew…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Another shipping disaster that has been attended with great loss of life happened in Cook's Straits, near the entrance to Wellington Harbour (N.Z.)…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Senator Pulsford has received the following letter from the Department of External Affairs, in reply to his letter which appeared in our issue of Saturday last.--…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AUCKLAND, Monday.--On her voyage from Dunedin to K[?]lpara the barquentine Mary Isabel passed, on February 10, in lat. 42.40deg. South, long. 174.5 deg. east, a submerged object,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE, Monday.--It is reported by the management that an attempt was made to wreck the Teeksbury Amalgamated No.4 dredge by cutting away the main water supply and thus let the dredge on the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The well-known cargo steamer Lady Mildred, which left Newcastle on the morning of February 12, with a. cargo of coal for Melbourne, went ashore on the night of February 14, during…
Continued on Trove, page 55 →The Captain Cook was originally intended for a pilot steamer, and is popularly considered to have done good work in that capacity. But, apparently, the Department considers either…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News of a disastrous collision, involving the sinking of the Dutch steamer Djambi and the loss of eight lives, was received in Sydney yesterday. The collision occurred in Singapore…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The old Hawkesbury River steamer General Gordon is to end her days as a houseboat on Sydney Harbor. She has been stationed alongside the shipbuilding yards…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Lord Mayor this afternoon received the following cablegram from Sir Joseph Ward, Premier of New Zealand:—"Kind message of sympathy from citizens of Sydney in regard to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The victims of the Penguin disaster were buried at Karori Cemetery this morning in the presence of mapy thousands of the public. The cortege travelled a lengthy route from the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →As far as can be learned the vessel struck the cliffs stem on, and almost immediately swinging round she seemed to fall bodily upon the rocks, the impact being more severely…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A portion of the crew of the steamer Lady Mildred, which went ashore at Wilson's Promontory on Sunday night, arrived here to-day by the steamer Moorabool. Captain Wills,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THERE has been a dreadful wreck at Tom's Rock, near Cape Terawhiti, N.Z. The Union Company's steamer Penguin was…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Following too closely upon the disastrous wreck of the Clan Ranald in St. Vincent's Gulf, the wreck of the Penguin in Cook's Straits Reminds ns that the progress of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →AUCKLAND, Tuesday.--The steamer Zingara has been chartered by the purchasers of tha wreck of the steamer Aeon, and leaves here at the end of the week for Christmas Island, fully, [?] with salvage gear…
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